7314 (2025). Ingrid Leary to the Minister for Mental Health

Written Question

Published date: 13 Mar 2025

Metadata

Document type:	Written Question
Parliament number:	54
Question number:	7314 (2025)
Question asked:	26 Feb 2025
Member asking:	Ingrid Leary
Portfolio:	Minister for Mental Health
Minister replying:	Hon Matt Doocey
Answer received:	09 Mar 2025
Status:	Question Answered
Reply type:	Reply
Document ID:	WQ_07314_2025
Document guid:	cc92d622-bdcc-47c4-a882-3e5b0b86070f

7314 (2025). Ingrid Leary to the Minister for Mental Health: How will the Minister identify and attract peer support professionals, with lived experience of disordered eating, towards working in eating disorder services?

Hon Matt Doocey: I am advised that Health New Zealand has a growing lived experience peers workforce, and that it funds foundational training, which is available to people with lived experience entering into the peer workforce.